"Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening is the 2007 incarnation of Gerard Alessandrini's long-running hit Off-Broadway musical revue ""Forbidden Broadway"", which parodies notable current Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals. ""Rude Awakening"" opened on October 2, 2007 at New York's 47th Street Theatre and closed on March 24, 2008. The show was conceived, created and written by Alessandrini and was directed by Alessandrini and Phillip George. The musicals parodied in ""Rude Awakening"" include ""Wicked"", ""A Chorus Line"", ""Les Misérables"", ""The Little Mermaid"", ""Grey Gardens"", ""Chicago"", ""Spring Awakening"", ""Jersey Boys"", ""Spamalot"" and ""Mary Poppins"". The tracks featured on the cast recording"
"at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway July 25, 1975, directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett. An unprecedented box office and critical hit, the musical received twelve Tony Award nominations and won nine, in addition to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The original Broadway production ran for 6,137 performances, becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history until surpassed by ""Cats"" in 1997, and the longest-running Broadway musical originally produced in the US, until surpassed in 2011 by ""Chicago"". It remains the seventh longest-running Broadway show ever. ""A Chorus Line""s success has spawned many successful productions worldwide. It began a lengthy"
"style is strongly identified with the show. Following a West End debut in 1979 which ran for 600 performances, ""Chicago"" was revived on Broadway in 1996, and a year later in the West End. The Broadway revival holds the record as the longest-running musical revival and the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. It is the second longest-running show in Broadway history, behind only ""The Phantom of the Opera"", having played its 7,486th performance on November 23, 2014, surpassing ""Cats"". The West End revival became the longest-running American musical in West End history. ""Chicago"" has been staged in numerous productions"
"It is now the 23rd longest running musical in Broadway history. ""Avenue Q"" won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical. Lopez/Marx's musical score earned them a 2004 Tony Award, and another Tony Award was awarded to ""Avenue Q"" bookwriter, Jeff Whitty. The musical's Original Cast Album, on the RCA/Victor label, was nominated for a Grammy Award. To date , it has sold over 150,000 copies. Marx (and his parents) can be seen in the documentary film """", which followed the trajectories of four Tony-nominated musicals from 2004, ""Avenue Q"", ""Wicked"", ""Taboo"" and ""Caroline, or Change"". Marx, along with filmmaker"
"Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier Awards and the Tony Awards. The London production ran for 21 years and the Broadway production ran for 18 years, both setting new records. Actresses Elaine Paige and Betty Buckley became particularly associated with the musical. One actress, Marlene Danielle, performed in the Broadway production for its entire run (from 1982 until 2000). As of 2018, ""Cats"" is the fourth-longest-running show in Broadway history, and was the longest-running Broadway show in history from 1997 until 2006 when it was surpassed by ""The Phantom of the Opera"". ""Cats"" is the sixth-longest-running West End show."
"fans who could not acquire a ticket for the final performance. It held the record as London's longest-running musical until 8 October 2006, when it was surpassed by ""Les Misérables"". The show made its debut on Broadway on 7 October 1982, at the Winter Garden Theater with the same production team. On 19 June 1997, ""Cats"" became the longest-running musical in Broadway history with 6,138 performances. It closed on 10 September 2000, after a total of 7,485 performances. Its Broadway record was surpassed on 9 January 2006 by ""The Phantom of the Opera"". It remains Broadway's fourth-longest-running show in history."
"longest-running show. The Broadway run ended on September 12, 2015, with its 5,758th performance, and was passed two years later (August 16, 2017) by ""Wicked"" to move one spot down in the list of longest-running Broadway shows. When ""Mamma Mia!"" opened in Russia, it received a very positive response. As of January 2008, ""Mamma Mia!"" became the longest daily running show in the history of Russian theatre. ""Mamma Mia!"" does not only heighten a nostalgic and emotional reactions to the ABBA fans, it has also been celebrated for its feminist overtones. The musical features strong female protagonists living in a"
"on Broadway tend to have longer runs than ""straight"" (i.e. non-musical) plays. On January 9, 2006, ""The Phantom of the Opera"" at the Majestic Theatre became the longest running Broadway musical, with 7,486 performances, overtaking ""Cats"". Attending a Broadway show is a common tourist activity in New York. The TKTS booths sell same-day tickets (and in certain cases next-day matinee tickets) for many Broadway and Off-Broadway shows at a discount of 20 to 50%. The TKTS booths are located in Times Square, in Lower Manhattan, and at Lincoln Center. This service is run by Theatre Development Fund. Many Broadway theatres"
"2001 to May 12, 2001, and finally to Chicago, Illinois, at the Cadillac Palace Theatre from May 13, 2001 to August 12, 2001. The musical opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 18, 2001, after beginning previews on October 5. The director is Phyllida Lloyd with choreography by Anthony Van Laast. As of October 2017, it is the ninth longest-running Broadway show and the longest-running jukebox musical in Broadway history. On April 18, 2013, it was announced that ""Mamma Mia!"" would transfer from its home at the Winter Garden Theatre to the Broadhurst Theatre later that year"
"following is an annotated alphabetical list of other musicals that have set records for long runs. Long-running musical theatre productions This is a selected list of the longest-running musical theatre productions in history divided into two sections. The first section lists all Broadway and West End productions of musicals that have exceeded 2,500 performances, in order of greatest number of performances in either market. The second section lists, in alphabetical order, musicals that have broken historical long run records for musical theatre on Broadway, in the West End or Off-Broadway, since 1866, in alphabetical order. The following is a list"
"become a global juggernaut since 1999, having now played in more than 40 countries in all six continents, and in 16 different languages. It has set the record for premiering in more cities faster than any other musical in history. The show has been nominated for numerous Olivier and Tony awards and was the first West End and Broadway musical to be performed in Chinese. ""Mamma Mia!"" is the 8th longest running show in Broadway history and one of only five musicals to have run for more than 10 years on the Great White Way. ""Mamma Mia!"" is in its"
"with an official opening date of November 16, 1999. The musical closed on July 29, 2007, after 46 previews and 5,461 performances, and is Broadway's tenth-longest running production in history (). The production holds the record of being the longest running production at both the Palace Theatre, where it opened, and the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where it closed its Broadway run. The production cost an estimated $12 million, arguably higher, becoming the most costly Broadway musical at the time. However, some analysists estimate the cost to be closer to $20 million. Directed by Robert Jess Roth with choreography by Matt West"
"Skopelos and will feature live musicians and real Mediterranean food. On any given day, there are at least seven performances of ""Mamma Mia!"" being performed around the globe. On May 15, 2005, ""Mamma Mia!"" surpassed the original Broadway runs of ""The Sound of Music"", ""The King and I"", and ""Damn Yankees"" with 1,500 performances. On March 6, 2014, it surpassed ""Rent"" to become the 8th longest-running Broadway musical and 9th longest-running show of all time with 5,124 performances, then surpassed ""Beauty and the Beast's"" 5,462 performances that same year, on December 14, to become Broadway's 7th longest-running musical and 8th"
"second longest-running show in Broadway history. Its runaway success sparked a greater appreciation of the 1975 original production and renewed stalled interest in a long-anticipated film adaptation, which incorporates the influences of both productions. The original production's musical numbers were staged as vaudeville acts; the film respects this but presents them as cutaway scenes in the mind of the Roxie character, while scenes in ""real life"" are filmed with a hard-edged grittiness. (This construct is the reason given by director Marshall why ""Class,"" performed by Velma and Mama, was cut from the film.) The musical itself was based on a"
"and the 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical, and Michael Crawford (in the title role) won the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical. It is the longest running show in Broadway history by a wide margin, and celebrated its 10,000th Broadway performance on 11 February 2012, the first production ever to do so. It is the second longest-running West End musical, after ""Les Misérables"", and the third longest-running West End show overall, after ""The Mousetrap"". With total estimated worldwide gross receipts of over $5.6 billion and total Broadway gross of $845 million, ""Phantom"" was the most"
"Long-running musical theatre productions This is a selected list of the longest-running musical theatre productions in history divided into two sections. The first section lists all Broadway and West End productions of musicals that have exceeded 2,500 performances, in order of greatest number of performances in either market. The second section lists, in alphabetical order, musicals that have broken historical long run records for musical theatre on Broadway, in the West End or Off-Broadway, since 1866, in alphabetical order. The following is a list of musical theatre productions that have exceeded 2,500 performances in Broadway or West End theatres. The"
"1955. The longest running Broadway production by far was Margaret Webster's 1940 staging starring Maurice Evans as Malvolio and Helen Hayes as Viola. It ran for 129 performances, more than twice as long as any other Broadway production. A memorable production directed by Liviu Ciulei at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, October–November 1984, was set in the context of an archetypal circus world, emphasising its convivial, carnival tone. When the play was first performed, all female parts were played by men or boys, but it has been the practice for some centuries now to cast women or girls in the"
"Express ran for 7,409 performances in the West End, making it the eighth longest-running musical in history. The Broadway production of ""Starlight Express"" opened on 15 March 1987 at the Gershwin Theatre. It ran for 761 performances, closing on 8 January 1989. Created by the original team of Trevor Nunn (direction), Arlene Phillips (choreography) and John Napier (design), Starlight Express on Broadway was extensively revised from the original West End production. The story was localised, with the trains now racing across America for a trophy called the ‘silver dollar’. The plot was streamlined, with one fewer race compared to the"
"the seventh longest-running show in West End history, as well as various international productions. Its Broadway incarnation closed in September 2015 after a 14-year run, making it the ninth longest-running show in Broadway history. ""Mamma Mia!"" is based on the songs of ABBA, a Swedish pop/dance group active from 1972 to 1982 and one of the most popular international pop groups of all time, topping the charts again and again in Europe, North and South America and Australia. Following the premiere of the musical in London in 1999, topped the charts in the United Kingdom again. This musical was the"
"12 years on Broadway where they won 3 Tony Awards and received a Grammy Award. On July 12, 2018, with its 6,138th performance, it surpassed ""A Chorus Line"" to become Broadway's sixth-longest running show. In March 2016, Wicked surpassed $1 billion in total Broadway revenue, joining both ""The Phantom of the Opera"" and ""The Lion King"" as the only Broadway shows to do so. In July 2017, Wicked surpassed ""The Phantom of the Opera"" as Broadway's second-highest grossing show, trailing only ""The Lion King"". Hebel originated and helped create the violin and concertmaster role in Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel's"
"received 12 Tony Award nominations and won nine of them, including Best Musical, in addition to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It ran for 6,137 performances, becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history up to that time. The show pioneered the workshop system for developing musicals, revolutionizing the way Broadway musicals were created thereafter, and many of the precedents for workshops' aesthetics and contract agreements were set by Papp, Bennett and ""A Chorus Line"". Delacorte Theatre productions introduced many new actors and actresses to outdoor Shakespeare and to New York audiences for free. Among the memorable performances (including some"
"Line (play) Line is a 1967 one-act play by Israel Horovitz, his first play produced. It is an absurdist drama about 5 people waiting in line for an event (what event it is, is never made clear—several of the characters' stated expectations contradict the others). Each of the characters uses their wiles in an attempt to be first in line, getting more and more vicious as the play continues. A revival of ""Line"" is the longest-running Off-Off-Broadway show on the boards, having played continuously at the 13th Street Repertory Theatre from 1974 to 2018. After 43 years of the revival"
"to the poetry of T. S. Eliot. ""Cats"" (1981) was to become the longest running musical in London, where it ran for 21 years before closing. On Broadway, ""Cats"" ran for 18 years, a record which would ultimately be broken by another Lloyd Webber musical, ""The Phantom of the Opera"". ""Starlight Express"" (1984) was a commercial hit, but received negative reviews from the critics. It enjoyed a record run in the West End, but ran for less than two years on Broadway. The show has also seen two tours of the US, as well as an Australian/Japanese production, a three-year"
"are actors in a musical. Despite the musical's title, the Def Leppard song of the same name is not included in the musical. The original Broadway production ran for 2,328 performances, closing on January 18, 2015 tied as the 29th-longest running show in Broadway history. Since debuting on the Great White Way in 2009, it has spawned replica productions worldwide in Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom among others, as well as several touring productions. Lonny Barnett, who serves as the show's narrator, sets up the story: In 1987, an aspiring rocker named Drew Boley works as a busboy in"
"(the original production opened at LaMama in 1967), the show closed January 01, 2018. Line (play) Line is a 1967 one-act play by Israel Horovitz, his first play produced. It is an absurdist drama about 5 people waiting in line for an event (what event it is, is never made clear—several of the characters' stated expectations contradict the others). Each of the characters uses their wiles in an attempt to be first in line, getting more and more vicious as the play continues. A revival of ""Line"" is the longest-running Off-Off-Broadway show on the boards, having played continuously at the"
"Adonis (musical) Adonis is an 1884 burlesque musical produced by Edward E. Rice who also composed the music along with John Eller. The book was written by William Gill. After playing at Hooley's Opera House in Chicago in the summer of 1884, it debuted at the Bijou Theatre in New York on September 4, 1884. It there had a run of 603 consecutive performances, making it the longest-running show on Broadway during that period, and the longest Broadway run of all time until 1893. After the show successfully ran for 500 shows, a cocktail was created in its honor. It"
"expensive real estate prices, and did not arrive in the Times Square area until the 1920s and 1930s. Broadway's first ""long-run"" musical was a 50 performance hit called ""The Elves"" in 1857. New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keene's ""musical burletta"" ""Seven Sisters"" (1860) shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. Around 1850, the French composer Hervé was experimenting with a form of comic musical theatre that came to be called opérette. The best known composers of operetta were Jacques Offenbach from the 1850s to the 1870s and Johann"
"Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"" starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, which at 2,717 performances held the long-run record for many years. Popular Hollywood films were made of all of these musicals. This surpassed the run of two hits by British creators: ""The Boy Friend"" (1954), which ran for 2,078 performances in London and marked Andrews' American debut, was very briefly the third longest-running musical in West End or Broadway history (after ""Chu Chin Chow"" and ""Oklahoma!""), until ""Salad Days"" (1954) surpassed its run and became the new long-run record holder, with 2,283 performances. Another record was set by ""The Threepenny Opera"","
"Rodgers and Hammerstein's new show, ""Me and Juliet"", although ""South Pacific"" had to be moved to Boston for five weeks because of schedule conflicts. When it closed on January 16, 1954, after 1,925 performances, it was the second-longest-running musical in Broadway history, after ""Oklahoma!"". At the final performance, Myron McCormick, the only cast member remaining from the opening, led the performers and audience in ""Auld Lang Syne""; the curtain did not fall but remained raised as the audience left the theatre. On a South Pacific island during World War II, two half-Polynesian children, Ngana and Jerome, happily sing as they"
"production in New York was Kenn Long and Jim Crozier's musical ""Touch"", whose score went on to earn a Grammy nomination. She championed one of the first productions on the subject of same sex marriage, Bill Solly and Donald Ward's ""Boy Meets Boy"", which afterwards became a hit and moved to a commercial run. In 1974, she presented Israel Horovitz's expressionistic comedy ""Line"", which famously went on to become the longest running play in Off-Off Broadway history. Performer and TV personality Brother Theodore performed his ""stand up tragedy"" act there on and off for over twenty years. In addition to"
"Theatre. On 3 October 2010, the show celebrated its 25th anniversary with three productions running in London: the original production at the Queen's Theatre; the 25th Anniversary touring production at its 1985 try-out venue, the Barbican Centre; and the 25th Anniversary concert at London's O2 Arena. The Broadway production opened 12 March 1987 and ran until 18 May 2003, closing after 6,680 performances. It is the fifth longest-running Broadway show in history and was the second-longest at the time. The show was nominated for 12 Tony Awards and won eight, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. Subsequently, numerous tours"
"Award, and returned to singing and acting. In early 1995, Beechman's cancer returned. She spent an hour on ""The Phil Donahue Show"" singing and discussing her condition and her will to keep going. Having returned to play Grizabella on Broadway for the ninth (1991) and tenth (1992) anniversary performances of ""Cats"", she again reprised the role from May to September 1997, so was in the cast on June 19 of that year, when ""Cats"" surpassed ""A Chorus Line"" to become the longest-running musical in Broadway history at that time. Although her treatments were ongoing, Beechman continued performing until just a"
"its 20th year, and as of at least September 2017 it is the longest-running American musical on Broadway. The revival of ""Chicago"" won numerous Tony Awards, and Reinking won the Tony Award for Best Choreography. She recreated her choreography for the 1997 London transfer of ""Chicago"", which starred Ute Lemper and Ruthie Henshall. In 1998 she co-created, co-directed and co-choreographed the revue ""Fosse"", receiving a Tony Award co-nomination for Best Direction of a Musical. For her work on the West End production of ""Fosse"", Reinking (along with the late Bob Fosse himself) won the 2001 Olivier Award for Best Theatre"